All Medical/Health


Coolly compliant

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Upgrading and replacing assets such as refrigeration equipment requires careful attention not only …

Gallium-based bone cancer therapy paste secures £110k support

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Grant money of £110,000 has been awarded to help develop an injectable paste that could have the po…

At the heart of things

Added: 20 Jan 2025

London’s role as a lab science location has been limited by shortage of sites but evidence suggests…

Financing smarter laboratories

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Everyone understands the importance of greater automation within the laboratory. Meeting that need,…

Composite product offers hope for neurodegenerative conditions, claim developers

Added: 13 Jan 2025

A novel composite material created by two UK universities has the potential to provide new treatmen…

Imperial’s smart heart reading T-shirt nets £340k

Added: 6 Jan 2025

Imperial College London researchers have secured more than a third of a million pounds to enable th…

Access your free copy of the Laboratory News Christmas issue…

Added: 20 Dec 2024

Scientist and presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken explains why eating is like an arms race as he prepar…

Greener diagnostics: The sustainable revolution

Added: 17 Dec 2024

From eco-friendly materials to innovative technologies such as spectroscopy, molecular diagnostics …

Making tough choices digestible

Added: 16 Dec 2024

“To eat is to compete in an arms race,” says Dr Chris van Tulleken, whose thoughts on evangelising …

Stick-on monitor offers cheap and precise warning system for critical conditions, say researchers

Added: 16 Dec 2024

A novel breathing monitor created by university and commercial partners is capable of providing a l…

Biobanks: a vital investment in precision medicine

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…

Durham points the way for rapid delivery global surveys

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Durham university says it has achieved one of the highest ever response rates for a global, large s…

British Heart Foundation Heart Hero Awards highlight breakthrough pioneers

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Cardiovascular research pioneer professor Adam Greenstein has been awarded the prestigious Research…

LLMs’ neuroscience predictions leave the experts trailing

Added: 1 Dec 2024

They’ve long since proved their effectiveness in information retrieval. Now large language models h…

Cell detectives offer clues to counter rheumatoid arthritis flare-ups 

Added: 1 Dec 2024

The body’s ‘cell detectives’ could be employed as biomarkers for one of the world’s most widespread…

Scientists beat chefs to the skinniest spaghetti

Added: 25 Nov 2024

UCL scientists have ousted a renowned Sardinian pasta maker’s record for the thinnest pasta ever cr…

Research suggests heart condition impacted by many rather than one single gene

Added: 25 Nov 2024

New research has called into question the nature of the genetic catalysts for a leading cause of he…

Lab News roundup: Honours, market reports, location moves, collaborations and research

Added: 14 Nov 2024

Diagnexia’s new histopathology laboratory in Oxford will have capacity to process 400,000 pathology…

Transparency is key to tackling drugs shortages

Added: 11 Nov 2024

However fast labs develop new therapies, the complex route to patients exacerbates shortages that c…

Life science leaders warn medicine’s Budget windfall must be supported by talent drive

Added: 11 Nov 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget announcement of more than half a billion pounds-worth of investmen…